On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:16:03 -0400, Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 06:10:46 -0700, Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 06:03:01AM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote:
> >>>What am I missing here, besides these .h files?
> >>
> >>Nothing.
> >>
> >>How to cope:
> >>
> >># mkdir /usr/src/linux
> >># mkdir /usr/src/linux/include
> >>
> >
> >
> > This is only looking for trouble. You should not mess with files
> > managed by your package manager (dpkg). As a user you are only free to
> > create/copy files on your home or in /usr/local, any other location
> > should not be touched
> 
> /usr/src/ should be fine too touch manually.[Though I am not convinced

You are right, those aren't libraries or binaries so should have
minimum impact and i've specified that "with caution" you can do it. 
=)

> this solution is correct, nothing should be referencing kernel headers
> except for kernel modules which generally need the exact version, ie
> install the appropriate kernel-headers package and create a symlink to
> /usr/src/linux/]
> 

Yeah, userland program shouldn't use kernel headers.


Andrea


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